Archive for November 2008
My Cool Bookshelf
I’m Reading….
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. The Author is the same guy who wrote Fight Club which adapted into motion picture in 1999 with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton as the cast. This year, Choke also adapted into motion picture directed by Clark Gregg, starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston.
The story is about Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout. Needing to pay elder care for his mother. Victor has devised an ingenious scam : he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him. When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visit his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park.
Quite interesting, right?! I haven’t finished read it yet though, hopefully I can manage to finish it before I watch the movie. Here’s the movie trailer :
Cheers!
Prada Vs BlackBerry
The newest Prada phone by LG now available improved with a full QWERTY keyboard while BlackBerry Storm goes touchscreen! Basically they’re doing exactly the opposite to each other. You know that Prada’s first phone was a touchscreen and BlackBerry known with their QWERTY keyboard. Anyway, which one you like better? Personally, since I’m more QWERTY person than touchscreen so I’ll go for Prada’s newest phone. Both are awesome though!
V for Vespa
All courtesy of Vespa Indonesia
Since the traffic is getting shittier and shittier, I really consider to start learning how to ride a motorcycle. I remember that I have ridden motorcycle only 2 times in my whole life! And actually it was never really “riding” a motorcycle. I was just hold the steer while my cousin sat behind me and he did all the rest riding thingy! Nowadays even a kid rides a motorcycle! My little neighbors ride motorcycle! I don’t know about their parents, but back then my parents didn’t allow me to ride it for the safety reason. Especially, there was a nasty motorcycle accident right in front of my house!
Anyway, I’d like to have a Vespa! Why so? Because I love its models and something about it that makes the person who riding it looks cool! Silly, I know. But yeah of course, mostly because I’ve influenced by the Italians.
They look good on it, for sure!
Don’t forget to wear a helmet while riding it!
Trollsen Twins
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Talking about PETA, PETA was joining in Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen (a.k.a. Hairy-Kate & Trashley Olsen a.k.a. Trollsen Twins as PETA calls them) book signing “Influence” at Barnes & Noble in New York by set a demonstration in front of the store wearing Trollsen masks and held signs reading “Trollsens: Fur Hags From Hell” and “Hairy-Kate and Trashley Olsen: Fur Tramps.”
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Ouch!
Anyway, click this to Meet the Trollsen Twins!
And also click this to read about an animal lover dumped a bag of flour over Lindsay Lohan head, shouting, “Lindsay Lohan, fur hag!” –Geez!
Gwyneth Paltrow for Tod’s
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Gwyneth Paltrow is the ambassador of Italian luxury goods brand Tod’s this year. She’s just perfect for the brand, I think. Though the ad campaign, which showing her wearing fox skin and leather boots while promoting ostrich and alligator skin bags, occurs a controversy. Yep, PETA strongly againsts it (and her). Totally. Oh well, I’ve got a flash back from zoolander’s scene right now. Mugatu versus PETA at the red carpet. :-D
H&M’s Comme des Garçons
H&M’s Comme des Garçons collection made 250 people waiting in line at the H&M store, NYC. And the following is the prove that recession doesn’t affect the americans stylish people :
High fashion at the low best price, couldn’t any better!
*Thanks to Vanity Fair Daily for this one.
Take It Like an Agent
Bored with your laptop sleeves, backpacks, or shoulder bags? Say hello to Matias Laptop Armor Aluminium Case! Available in 2 size for laptops with screens up to 15″ and laptops with screens up to 17″. So it fits for your beloved MacBook or MacBook Pro. As hard as it looks, Laptop Armor hard cases are designed to give your laptop real protection from the impact of a fall. Sounds perfect to me and i might start drooling for another seconds, lol. And yeah, it makes you look cooler by carrying it, totally!
The Royal Ronsons
Don’t you love those pics? Well, I do! Mark Ronson, Samantha Ronson, and Charlotte Ronson did “The Royal Tenenbaums” photo shoot for Harper’s Bazaar. I love the movie, it’s one of my fave movies which Gwyneth Paltrow in it. And I think Samantha looks very Margot Tenenbaum! For those who haven’t seen The Royal Tenenbaums yet, I really highly recommend to watch it! Anyway, check out Mark Ronson’s album called Version too.























